Researchers in Poland have made a unique discovery: the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the “Mysterious Lady.” Dating from the 1st century BCE, this mummy was ...

Excavations carried out by an Egyptian mission near the Aga Khan Mausoleum on Aswan's west bank uncovered an anthropoid sandstone sarcophagus with a mummy inside of a Late Period tomb. Mostafa ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

The Saqqara Necropolis, the burial ground for the ancient capital city of Memphis located south of Cairo, recently announced ...

After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask and remaining treasures are set ...

(How ancient Egyptians—from kings to commoners ... Royal reposeThe mummified remains of Amenhotep II rest in his sarcophagus in KV35. The mummy was moved in 1931 to the Egyptian Museum in ...

The fact that Ramesses II lived to around age 90 was, in itself, quite a feat in ancient Egypt. At the time "most people died ...

An ancient Roman sarcophagus found in Israel, featuring the Greek god Dionysus and Hercules, looks like a scene straight out ...

Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in ...

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. Reporting in ...

The burials were found within a cemetery now known as Dra Abu el-Naga, which is near modern-day Luxor (ancient Thebes ... a lecturer in Egyptian archaeology at the University of Manchester ...

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a Roman-era sarcophagus that depicts Dionysus beating Hercules in a drinking contest.